Community Support Worker

6 days ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Sense Full time

Looking for a new challenge?
Have you ever wanted to have a rewarding and fulfilling career where you can make a real difference in people's lives?
It's an exciting time at Sense as our team is expanding We now have a fantastic opportunity for a Community Support Worker to join our team in Coventry/Nuneaton. Our Get Out There (GOT) Service supports children and young people with their social programme of activities.
The great thing about Sense is that you don’t need to have previous experience in this field - we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent support worker.
As a GOT Service Community Support Worker, you will be supporting a non verbal young individual in their home based near Exhall, Coventry.
You will be working 2:1 with another staff member to provide sensory activities and communication opportunities. You will be working closely with school, occupational therapists and learning disability nurses.
Does this sound right for you? Working at Sense gives you a wide range of benefits including:
24 days’ holiday + bank holidays; increasing with length of service
Free DBS Check
Free leadership and management development (such as our award winning Growing Stronger Leaders Together programme)
Free access to over 100 online and face to face training including the care certificate.
On-going development opportunities
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Employee referral scheme
Health and well-being support
Pension Scheme

**Discount scheme Your duties can include**:
To support individuals / groups within the centre and community.
To provide a customised, responsive and high quality service to people with multiple sensory impairments, physical and/or learning disabilities who use Sense services.
To deliver services which meet or exceed organisational expectations and standards. Your required skills and experiences:
Knowledge of or qualification in British Sign Language or similar is desirable ( BSL / Makaton etc.)
A full manual UK license is required as you will be required to drive and take the people you support out in the community.
You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications - we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent support worker.
Must have experience of dealing with challenging behaviors and sensory processing disorders.
Must be able to work as part of a team and keep accurate records.
To apply

**No agency submissions please**: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.


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